Interview with Anya Krugovoy Silver
In the Fall semester of 2016, I asked Jessica Wilson, the administrator for the Georgia Writers Association, if she could recommend a handful of new poetry books. Her kind and generous response included I watched you disappear , by Anya Krugovoy Silver, which won the Georgia Author of the Year Award (GAYA) in 2015. I soon began reading Silver�s 2016 publication, From Nothing and found myself suspended between the worlds of late 19 th and early 20 th century art and, at times, unfamiliar fairy tales. I suspect that what will keep me picking this book up again and again is that I�ve found a bit of my own true north in the poet�s reluctance to romanticize childhood in favor of celebrating the weft and twill of adulthood. Speaking briefly of her journey, Dr. Krugovoy Silver relates, �I was born in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania to a Russian/Ukrainian father and Swiss/German mother. My father was a Russian professor and I learned my love of language f...